In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, metatheatre is presented as a conscious centralisation of action, embodying the blurring of boundaries between...

In Hamlet, Shakespeare presents Claudius as the Machiavellian archetype: a pragmatic but corrupt monarch figure – and blurs the lines...

In Act 1, Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, several significant dramatic elements are founded, which set up the ‘revenge plot’ of the...

‘Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is deformed, though not obliterated, by his distrust of all women because of his disillusionment with his...